Word Of The Week (WOW #21)

Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me). It’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.

WOW

Here’s the WOW for this week :

1Word:

Schmooze

Part Of Speech:

Verb

Derivatives:

schmoozer: noun schmoozy: adjective (schmoozier, schmooziest)

Pronunciation: 

/ʃmuːz/ Click on the icon to listen to the pronunciation:  stock-illustration-25237577-speaker-icon

Meaning:

-Talk intimately and cosily; gossip. -Talk in a cosy and intimate manner to (someone), typically in order to manipulate them.

Synonyms:

Chit-chat, confab, chin wag, natter.

Antonyms:

Word Origin: 

Late 19th century (as a verb): from Yiddish shmuesn ‘converse, chat’.

Use in sentence: 

  • People will have time to schmooze during the cocktail hour.
  • She spent every spare minute of the conference schmoozing with the industry’s power players.
  • We had a wonderful schmooze about the old days

Here are some images showing “schmooze”: Schmooze_Chinwag-e1380667453120 chit_chat_by_meago-d4dq2iy


I hope you guys like this word and hope it’s useful to you in some or the other way! If you want to check out more words like this, then visit my page:

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18 responses to “Word Of The Week (WOW #21)”

  1. Erika Kind Avatar

    This is so cool! That word really sounds like its meaning!

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar

      That’s what I thought when I first came across it. I really like the sound of it 🙂
      Isn’t it cute!

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      1. Erika Kind Avatar

        It is indeed 😃

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  2. The V-Pub Avatar
    The V-Pub

    There’s a lot of schmoozing here at work!

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar

      Hahaha! You’re a lucky guy 😉

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  3. ladymeritaten Avatar

    Yiddish has the funniest words sometimes.

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar

      Yea, they do have some really funny words 🙂
      Thanks for dropping by!

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  4. Rajagopal Avatar

    Onomatopoeic, the word sounds its meaning…

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar

      Yea. I like words like this, they make writing interesting! 🙂

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar

      Thanks Priya 🙂

      Like

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  6. milliethom Avatar

    I like the sound of schmooze, Heena. It’s a modern-sounding word, and it wouldn’t suit my historical books, but it could be useful in contemporary novels. 🙂
    Here is the link to my WOW for this week:
    https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/word-of-the-week-wow-20/

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar

      Thanks Millie… Yea, it’ll be fit for contemporary fiction… Can’t imagine the historical people using this term…hehe! 🙂

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